Happy New Year – particularly to those fellow visitors to the Caribbean who have contributed to my  boondoggles. Having been here since Christmas, I’ve melded into the zeitgeist of these …

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19 years ago the industry was confused about the future of wireless comms. Paul Otellini, Intel’s  COO, told delegates to the 2004 3GSM World Congress that UWB technology would find …

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch metrics support in AWS CodeArtifact, expanding the monitoring options available to CodeArtifact users. Customers can use CloudWatch metrics to monitor all requests made to CodeArtifact per account to better understand their usage.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region.

Starting today, the EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Spain) AWS Regions. Hibernation is an Amazon EC2 feature that helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. Customers are not billed for compute time while instances are suspended, only their storage volumes, and applications will resume from right where they left off. 

Amazon EMR Release 7.0 ships with Amazon Linux 2023 and features Apache Spark 3.5 running on Amazon Corretto Release 17 (built on OpenJDK) by default. It supports the latest versions of Python 3.9, glibc 2.34, and enables you to ensure consistency of package versions and updates across your environment. The latest release ships with AWS SDK for Java 2.20.160, and upgrades to the latest versions for Apache Flink 1.18 and latest open table formats (Apache Iceberg 1.4.2, Apache Hudi 0.14 and Delta 3.0).

Today, we would like to announce expansion of AWS Mainframe Modernization service to four additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Stockholm). 

Amazon SageMaker Studio offers integrated development environments (IDEs) for machine learning (ML) development. Studio provides tools for data preparation, experimentation and production to boost productivity. Studio users can now run SageMaker processing, training, inference and batch transform jobs locally on their Studio IDE instance. Users can also build and test SageMaker compatible Docker images locally in Studio IDEs. 

In 2001 a personal transporter was put on the market. A prominent VC said it would be more important than the Internet; Steve Jobs said it was as big a …

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Our ministers can be so embarrassing. Speaking on the subject of autonomous cars, Mark Harper, the Secretary of State for Transport, says: “I’ve seen the technology being used in California …

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